Trundlers Tales

Feel empowered by Jennifer’s life-changing story What makes a mid-50 year old, professional woman become a Trundler? A little over three years ago I was sitting at my desk and staring at the blank screen of my computer. For over 20 years I had diligently caught the tube from Finsbury Park, to travel 40 minutes to the Angel through the … Read More

When your children have left home, there’s no reason why you have to stay there either. Especially when you can run a highly successful business from a place in the sun WOULD YOU PELOPPONESE IT? Like most sizeable decisions in my life, the one to work for a month in a beachfront apartment on the beautiful Meme beach on the … Read More

Back in Basel as a Trundler, Ian abandoned the boots and Little Bo Peep of his backpacker days in favour of a passion for paintings Trundling up the Flüssigkeit Güllegrube, without a paddle Thirty-seven and one-sixth years ago, a 20-years-old student boarded a train at Basle railway station in Switzerland for a lengthy journey back to north-east England. He’d spent … Read More

Dear Trundler, I have not been to France for many years, but I used to be a regular visitor to Normandy and Brittany. I would like to spend more time in France on a motoring tour seeing as much of the country as possible. I have a dog which I would like to take with me on the trip. Any … Read More

Trundler Senor Bob feels the heat in Colombo but stays on track Part One: Arrival The heat that engulfs me as I alight at Colombo airport, never really leaves me during my three week visit, except when I am in an air conditioned building or immersed in water. It is a temperature you have to get used to. The confusion … Read More

Will Wain does the cosmopolitan, cultural and cod-loving capital of Newfoundland in a Day You don’t come to Newfoundland for the weather. I’d flown in the previous evening in a misty rainstorm that would have seemed just right for Craggy Island, but my single day in St John’s before hiring a car and heading up country dawned sunny and clear, … Read More

Trundler Antonia Banks abandons her watch and wakes up with the roosters in the largest of the British Virgin Islands ‘Nature’s Little Secrets’ (aka the BVIs) have a constant temperature of 30oC with cooling Trade Winds. There are few resorts, which suits me fine as I dislike sanitised chalets behind barbed-wire fences. Tortola is remote and time-consuming to get to … Read More